In February 2024, the Shanghai Emergency Management Bureau and Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission published the Notice on Advancing the Management on the Inventory of Hazardous Chemicals and the Loading and Unloading of Dangerous Goods through the Implementation of "One Enterprise, One Product with One QR Code", which requires stakeholders to establish a system to record the inventory of hazardous chemicals and affix QR codes before December 31, 2024.
Since 2024, hazardous chemicals meeting the scope of implementation will be assigned a QR code in Shanghai. Every product containing hazardous chemicals in all batches will be given a QR code which facilitates the traceability and the storage of hazardous chemicals.
Scope of Implementation of QR Code:
Enterprises in Shanghai involved in the import, production, storage, operation, use of hazardous chemicals, as well as those in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, are all required to implement traceability (QR) codes. All enterprises need to register to obtain an enterprise account and password for system login. Enterprises involving the production, operation and import of hazardous chemicals need to update its information of hazardous chemicals, maintain the QR code, and generate QR code.
Hazardous chemicals listed in the "Table of the Classification of Hazardous Chemicals" of the annex to the "Guidance for the Implementation of the Catalog of Hazardous Chemicals (2015 Edition) (Trial)" should be assigned QR code. Hazardous chemicals that meet the determinative criteria for hazardous chemicals but do not have specified names are not required to have QR code.
Hazardous chemicals produced, filled, repackaged, or relabeled within Shanghai should be assigned QR code, except for those whose packaging specifications less than 100 grams/milliliters. Hazardous chemicals transported via pipelines, oil tankers, chemical tankers for chemicals in bulk, and liquefied gas ships are not required to have QR code.
Imported hazardous chemicals that clear customs at Shanghai ports and circulate within Shanghai must be assigned QR codes once they enter the warehouses of licensed hazardous chemical businesses in the city (with storage facilities and warehousing), except for those used as raw materials by the business itself. Hazardous chemicals that are directly transported to other provinces or cities in China after customs clearance at Shanghai ports, or directly to local enterprises in Shanghai for their own production as raw materials, are not required to have QR code.
Enterprises are required to standardize the printing or labelling of QR codes on the smallest external packaging of hazardous chemicals in every circulation stage. Hazardous chemicals transported in tank trucks are allowed to use virtual QR codes or print the QR code on the delivery order/booking order.
Enterprises importing hazardous chemicals are encouraged to give QR codes for imported hazardous chemicals. Enterprises that give QR codes for imported hazardous chemicals will be preferentially recommended to be added to the “white list” in which enterprises will enjoy a reduction or exemption of customs inspections.
The translation of this Notice is avaliable in our ChemRadar.
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